Qiang Yang () (born 1963) is the Chair Professor, Department Head of CSE,

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and University New Bright Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor from 2015. He was the founding head of Noah's Ark Lab. He had taught at the University of Waterloo and Simon Fraser University. His research interests are data mining and

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Biography

Qiang Yang was born in

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. He is the son of Haishou Yang (), an Astronomer in

. Qiang Yang attended

Tsinghua University High School Tsinghua University High School (), or Tsinghua High School for short (), is a high school in China, located in Beijing. Based on its current status, a more precise translation should be 'The secondary school affiliated to Tsinghua University'. In ...

in 1975 and then

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in 1978. He graduated from

with a degree in

astrophysics Astrophysics is a science that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena. As one of the founders of the discipline said, Astrophysics "seeks to ascertain the nature of the h ...

and went to the US through the

CUSPEA CUSPEA (China-U.S. Physics Examination and Application,李政道奖学金) was an examination and admission system used by the physics departments of some American and Canadian universities for graduate school admission from People's Republic of Chi ...

exams in 1982. He obtained his master's degree in

from the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

in 1985, and another master's degree in

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

at the same university in 1987. He obtained his doctorate degree in computer science from the

in 1989. (supervisor: Dana S. Nau) Qiang Yang had taught at the University of Waterloo (1989 - 1995, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor) and Simon Fraser University (1995 - 2001, Associate professor, full professor). He worked in Microsoft Research Asia from 1999 to 2000. He is now a professor of CSE,

in Hong Kong.

Awards

* Qiang Yang is an ACM Fellow (2017 - ). * He was elevated to AAAI fellow in 2013 * He was elevated to

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Fellow (2009 - ). *He was elevated to

IAPR The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), founded in 1978 by Purdue University computer scientist King-Sun Fu, is an international association of non-profit, scientific, or professional organizations (being national, multi-natio ...

Fellow (2012 - ). *He was elevated to

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Fellow (2012 - ). *He was elected to chairman of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2017-)

Career

He is the head of Noah's Ark Lab which was founded by

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and headquartered in Hong Kong in June, 2012. He was invited to serve as the chief technology advisor of Weixin in 2015. He is also the founding Editor in Chief of the

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Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) from 2010. He had been the vice chair of ACM SIGART between 2010 and 2013, a program co-chair for ACM

SIGKDD SIGKDD, representing the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, hosts an influential annual conference. Conference history The KDD Conference grew from KDD (Knowledge Di ...

2010, and the general chair for ACM

2012. He had also been a general co-chair for ACM IUI (Intelligent User Interface) 2010 and ACM RecSys (Recommender System) Conference in 2013. He is a member of the

IJCAI The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) is the leading conference in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The conference series has been organized by the nonprofit IJCAI Organization since 1969, making it the oldest p ...

trustee between 2011 and 2017 and the program chair of IJCAI-15 held in Buenos Aires.

Books

* "Digital Watermarking for Machine Learning Model" * "Crafting Your Research Future: A Guide to Successful Master's and PH.D. Degrees in Science & Engineering" (

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:《学术研究你的成功之道》) * "Intelligent Planning: A Decomposition and Abstraction Based Approach" * "Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering: Theory and Experiments (International Series in Software Engineering)"

References

External links

Qiang Yang Home Page
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Qiang Yang - The ACM Digital Library
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Qiang Fellow Members of the IEEE Peking University alumni Educators from Beijing Chinese computer scientists Scientists from Beijing Academic staff of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Living people 1964 births Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery